Programs and events 2005

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As part of the U.S. Consulate General in Krakow's ongoing "Partnership for Democracy - International Media Program" launched in September 2005, two more workshops for Ukrainian journalists took place Oct. 20-23 in Poland’s southeastern Podkarpackie, along the Polish-Ukrainian border.

"New Media in New Reality" was organized for Ukrainian journalism students, while the second, "Media Forest: Challenges to the Environment in Forestry" was aimed at professional journalists covering environmental issues. The workshops and study tours included visits to regional print and electronic media as well as a lecture and discussion with Jagienka Wilczak, a journalist from Poland’s biggest national weekly "Polityka".

Both workshops participated in an annual "Media Forest" tree planting co-organized with the Polish and Ukrainian State Forest Services and Bieszczadzki National Park. This year’s event resulted in a cooperation agreement between the two forest services which was signed at the site of a Polish and Ukrainian village destroyed during WWII. The forest planted there by both Polish and Ukrainian journalists, serves as a reconciliation project between two nations with a much troubled history.